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Reading Tips for Parents from a Hall of Fame Teacherhttps://dougdohring.wordpress.com/2018/12/18/reading-tips-for-parents-from-a-hall-of-fame-teacher/
Tue, 18 Dec 2018 21:39:04 +0000http://dougdohring.wordpress.com/?p=687A colleague, friend, and National Teachers Hall of Fame inductee, Dr. Rebecca A. Palacios has served as a Sr. Curriculum Advisor and member of our Curriculum Board at Age of Learning, since 2009. She has worked with us on strategic curriculum planning and the design of age-appropriate learning activities for our digital learning programs, including ABCmouse.com Early Learning Academy and ReadingIQ.

She recently became a contributor for US News & World Report, and today her first article was published.

“9 Ways to Make Sure Your Child Loves Reading” offers parents essential early literacy tips to help foster their children’s love of reading and help them develop the skills needed to better navigate the future as adults.

]]>dougdohringAge of Learning Launches ReadingIQ, an Expert-Curated Digital Libraryhttps://dougdohring.wordpress.com/2018/11/23/age-of-learning-launches-readingiq-an-expert-curated-digital-library/
Sat, 24 Nov 2018 00:07:28 +0000http://dougdohring.wordpress.com/?p=682I’m thrilled to share that last week Age of Learning launched ReadingIQ, an advanced digital library for children 12 and under, which gives families and teachers access to thousands of high-quality books, curated by experts to advance literacy.

ReadingIQ provides the best of children’s literature, including Caldecott and Newbery award winners, National Geographic and National Geographic Kids books, more than 1,000 exclusive titles, and thousands of additional high-quality fiction and nonfiction books from leading publishers. Plus, the entire ReadingIQ library is easily searchable by topic and leveled with both the Guided Reading and Lexile® systems so that children can find titles that match their interests and reading ability.

Our mission at Age of Learning is simple: helping children everywhere build a strong foundation for academic success and foster a lifelong love of learning. And we measure progress by our ability to increase learning outcomes for all children, particularly those who are furthest from opportunity.

Children from low-income families begin to fall behind their peers in vocabulary development before they’re even two years old. By the time they reach fourth grade, 80 percent of these children are not proficient readers (Source: Campaign for Grade-Level Reading). This learning deficit has long-term effects on children’s academic future, including their likelihood of graduating from high school.

To help address this challenge, Age of Learning has developed a set of Education Access Initiatives to make our educational programs available for free to children whose families may not be able to afford a subscription.

The Bring Learning Home Initiative is expanding its reach in the San Francisco Bay Area, providing families throughout the Bay Area with free home access to ABCmouse Early Learning Academy via public libraries. Local families can now “check out” ABCmouse accounts for four weeks at a time from the San José Public Library, San Mateo County Libraries, Contra Costa County Library, and 13 other library systems.

Bring Learning Home is a Tides Foundation initiative that works to help close the access and achievement gaps in education by providing research-validated digital education resources to young learners, with a focus on low-income families.

Through Bring Learning Home, libraries are providing families free at-home access to the research-validated ABCmouse curriculum, including more than 10,000 ABCmouse Learning Activities (hundreds available in Spanish), several standalone mobile apps that can be used without internet connectivity, and digital assessments. The program is designed to increase school readiness and reading proficiency and can be accessed by up to three children per family. Libraries also receive physical books for each branch, training for librarians on the use of digital early education resources, and support for family outreach and education.

]]>dougdohring2-girls-759x518_72dpiABCmouse Adds Major New Features for Teachers and Schoolshttps://dougdohring.wordpress.com/2018/08/15/abcmouse-adds-major-new-features-for-teachers-and-schools/
Thu, 16 Aug 2018 05:44:23 +0000http://dougdohring.wordpress.com/?p=669As part of Age of Learning‘s commitment to help children everywhere build a strong foundation for academic success, we offer ABCmouse at no cost to teachers for use in their classrooms. For schools and districts, ABCmouse for Schools adds full home access for students, custom curriculum alignment, performance reporting, professional development, and more.

During the last school year, more than 145,000 teachers—including 1 in 4 kindergarten teachers in the U.S.—serving millions of students used ABCmouse in their classrooms. Students completed more than 100 million ABCmouse Learning Activities during the year.

For the 2018-2019 school year, we developed the following new features and capabilities for ABCmouse for Teachers and ABCmouse for Schools. You can learn more about these features from the following posts on the Age of Learning blog:

Summer matters. For those months of the year when children aren’t in school, engaging educational experiences can keep them from losing the progress they made. A major challenge during these summer months is ensuring that children retain the knowledge gained during the school year by preventing the “summer slide.”

Research shows that the summer slide has a significant, cumulative impact on academic achievement, particularly for children in low-income households. The summer slide is a key factor behind a stunning statistic: by the end of 5th grade, disadvantaged children are, on average, nearly three grade levels behind their more affluent peers in reading (source: The Campaign for Grade-Level Reading). And, according to the National Summer Learning Association, summer learning loss accounts for two-thirds of the achievement gap in reading between children from low- and middle-income households by 9th grade.

But there is hope. While the school year will start before we know it, there’s still time for children to reinforce what they learned the previous year and prepare for the next one. Engaging and effective learning experiences can help prevent the summer slide by getting children excited to continue learning over their summer break.

]]>dougdohringABCmouse Songs Now Available to Streamhttps://dougdohring.wordpress.com/2018/06/08/663/
Sat, 09 Jun 2018 05:30:10 +0000http://dougdohring.wordpress.com/?p=663Things have been busy, which is good. But that’s meant that I’m more than a bit behind in posting to my blog. I’m going to do my best to catch folks up on what’s been going on with Age of Learning, starting with this post about ABCmouse streaming educational songs…

Music has always been a big part of ABCmouse Early Learning Academy, which offers more than 175 songs that help bring learning to life for children. That’s why I’m thrilled to announce here that our complete collection of ABCmouse music is available on major music platforms worldwide, including Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, Pandora, and Google Play. With a listener base of more than 300 million people in more than 100 countries, these platforms expand the reach of ABCmouse to many more families around the world.

The ABCmouse music collection features dozens of original compositions (we’ve always had great musicians and songwriters in the company!), including a song for each letter of the alphabet, songs that teach about numbers, shapes, colors, geography, and much more. The collection also includes many new arrangements of classic children’s songs. We produce and record all our songs in our on-site recording studios in our headquarters in Los Angeles.

]]>dougdohringABCmouse Streaming SongsAge of Learning Wins 3 Gold Stevie Awards for ABCmouse Mastering Mathhttps://dougdohring.wordpress.com/2018/05/02/age-of-learning-wins-3-gold-stevie-awards-for-abcmouse-mastering-math/
Wed, 02 May 2018 19:37:41 +0000http://dougdohring.wordpress.com/?p=660I’m thrilled to share that Age of Learning has today won three coveted Stevie Awards for our ABCmouse Mastering Math app: Best PreK / Early Childhood Learning Solution, Best Game-based Curriculum Solution, and Best Mathematics Instructional Solution. In January, Mastering Math was named Best Educational App in the Best Mobile App Awards.

Mastering Math is an innovative, game-based adaptive early learning app (available for Apple/iOS and Android mobile devices) that helps preschool through kindergarten children build a strong understanding of the most fundamental math concepts: number sequences, numeral recognition, and counting objects. Having that foundation is a key requirement for success in kindergarten and beyond. The app uses appealing characters and personalized learning pathways to help children achieve mastery through practice.

The app leverages the Personalized Mastery Learning System developed by Age of Learning. This adaptive learning platform recommends and customizes learning games to deliver an individualized learning path and personalized education to every child. The app actively adapts in real time to a child’s existing knowledge, filling in gaps in understanding and teaching new material as the child demonstrates they are ready for more advanced learning activities. Using data from a child’s interaction, the system adapts the sequence of activities presented, and even adapts within each activity, to optimize each child’s learning experience and ultimately help all children achieve math mastery.

Current ABCmouse members can use the Mastering Math app completely free just by logging in. If you are not yet a member, you can subscribe through this app to begin your family’s ABCmouse learning adventure.

Congratulations to everyone on the Mastering Math team at Age of Learning!

]]>dougdohringABCmouse_Mastering_Mathaba18_gold_winnerTencent Partners with Age of Learning to Launch ABCmouse Immersive English Learning Program for Children in Chinahttps://dougdohring.wordpress.com/2018/04/08/tencent-partners-with-age-of-learning-to-launch-abcmouse-immersive-english-learning-program-for-children-in-china/
Mon, 09 Apr 2018 00:58:19 +0000http://dougdohring.wordpress.com/?p=657I am thrilled to announce an exciting new partnership for Age of Learning in China.

Tencent, one of largest Internet companies in the world, and edtech innovator Age of Learning today announced the launch of a new ABCmouse English learning program in China. This expert-designed immersive language learning product will provide Chinese children with an essential foundation for English conversational fluency and literacy, and was developed through an innovative partnership between these two technology leaders.

Age of Learning’s team of child development and language learning experts created the ABCmouse English learning curriculum, currently comprised of more than 5,000 engaging learning activities organized into hundreds of lessons and a structured learning path, based on extensive research on second-language acquisition. Tencent has expertly integrated this curriculum into a new ABCmouse mobile application and website, and is responsible for product development, marketing, sales, and customer support.

]]>dougdohringAge-of-Learning-Tencent-partnership-in-China_ABCmouse-QQAge of Learning’s Zac Katz on the Benefits of Working in Glendalehttps://dougdohring.wordpress.com/2018/02/11/age-of-learnings-zac-katz-on-the-benefits-of-working-in-glendale/
Mon, 12 Feb 2018 00:46:44 +0000http://dougdohring.wordpress.com/?p=652Age of Learning SVP Corporate Development Zac Katz shares his perspective on the company and the benefits of working in Glendale, CA.
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